The Cube at 359, Hansons fleet at 359, The redshirt on an away mission. =(
Everybody, thanks for all the help. After a whole lot of fiddling I got the thing to move, just to find out that it expects 3mm Filament, which is not sold at my local store. So faced with replacing the hotend and extruder I gave up and ordered a kp3s pro for less than 100€, maybe my first printer should be something that actually works.
The board says "Melzi Ardentissimo" and does have a sd card slot, so I guess first step would be to find an old, blocky mini-usb cable, haven't needed one of those in a hot minute, and backup the firmware.
And it looks like it can just print from the SD, but since there is no display or controls of any kind and the sdcard has multiple printfiles, its probably sime kind of magical filename...
Any life left in old printer?
I have a question, I revently found a old 3d printer in my brothers basement, apparently its a "nophead mendel 90" that he built years ago but then lost interest in.
I would love to try and bring it back to life, but I know very little about printing, and have no idea where to start. Is a printer this old compatible with modern slicers? What software would I use to connect to it via usb? I tried to do research on my own, but found very little useful info about how to actually get it working